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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online. Eastern Bank).

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow.

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

The headline call was and remains that Germany will be close to recession by Q4-2014 or Q1-2015 setting up a desperate ECB and a Europe once again close to zero growth instead of the “escape velocity” everyone and their dog promised you and me in December and January. The US average GDP the last five years has been 2.0%.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Not only has there been zero bounce, but next year''s expectations continue to be downgraded with 65% of all estimate changes to 2015 currently coming through as downgrades. If so (i.e.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies. We calculate that U.S.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Notable successes emerged in 2015, showing that value creation is possible and signaling important opportunities for many companies in the years ahead. Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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